Kossacks. I love you, but I have one thing to say:
Thesaurus. Motherfucking get one. Use google to find them free on-line.
For those of you who are lackadaisical lazy lardasses here's a few copy-pasted selections:
Synonyms for Eviscerate (I.e. Gut):bowel, decimate, despoil, dilapidate, disembowel, draw, dress, empty, eviscerate , exenterate, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, rifle, sack
Synonyms for Divide/split: carve, chop, crack, cut, dissect, dissever, disunite, divorce, hack, hew, open, part, pierce, rend, rip, rive, separate, sever, slice, stab, sunder, tear asunder, whack
cut in two: bifurcate, branch off, cleave , cross, cut across, cut in half, cut in two, dichotomize, dimidiate, divaricate, divide in two, fork, furcate, halve, hemisect, intersect, separate, split, split down the middle
Destroy/Demolish/Devastate: abort, annihilate, annul, axe, blot out, break down, butcher, consume, cream*, crush, damage, deface, desolate, despoil, dismantle, dispatch, end, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, gut, impair, kill, lay waste, level, liquidate, maim, mar, maraud, mutilate, nuke, nullify, overturn, quash, quell, ravage, ravish, raze, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, smash, snuff out, spoliate, stamp out, suppress, swallow up, tear down, torpedo, total, trash*, vaporize, waste, wax, wipe out, wreck, zap
Batter/Strike/Damage: assault, bash, beat, break, bruise, buffet, clobber, contuse, cripple, crush, dash, deface, demolish, destroy , disable, disfigure, drub, hurt, injure, lacerate, lambaste, lame, lash, mangle, mar, maul, mutilate, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punish, ruin, shatter, smash, thrash, wallop, wreck
Blast/Explode: annihilate, blight, blow up, bomb, break up, burst, damage, dash, demolish, destroy , detonate, dynamite, injure, kill, ruin, shatter, shrivel, spoil, stunt, torpedo, wither, wreck
I frigging love the word Ruination. Especially when you can say Romney/Ryan will lead America to Ruination.
What they mean is "said it a second time". What they mean is reiterate, rehash, recap, repeat, echo, ditto, and when surrogates do it it's parroting, rubber-stamping, or echoing. Parroting is perfect for surrogates.
Ever again.
Seriously, we should ban the word. Not like actually hide-rate bannable offense ban it, because that would be a hysterical, panicked, overreacting push of the panic button, and a sign that we were having a collective fit, and yes, I'm aware that I used panic twice in that sentence.
My point is: Thesauruses. Use them (I do.)
Please.
Because we need many words to describe how many different ways Romney is getting his ass handed to him.